SANParks.org ForumsDiscussing the National Parks of South Africa2012-09-17T22:58:14+02:00http://www.sanparks.org/forums/feed.php?f=29&t=655542012-09-17T22:58:14+02:002012-09-17T22:58:14+02:00http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=65554&p=1789382#p1789382Statistics: Posted by madach — Mon Sep 17, 2012 10:58 pm
]]>2012-09-17T22:18:38+02:002012-09-17T22:18:38+02:00http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=65554&p=1789365#p1789365And like your said, I still need to store them on a different location... I said it already a couple of times, but haven't done it yet .

When I'm on a trip, I use two external hard drives. On one I download the photos on and ones in a while(most of the time, after I shot some good pictures) I copy everything from drive 1 to 2 as backup.

]]>2012-09-17T18:05:20+02:002012-09-17T18:05:20+02:00http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=65554&p=1789185#p1789185I have no need to back up any J-Peg pictures to DVD as these can easily be recreated from the raw files if and when required. My prime reason for shooting .jpg is so that I can send pictures via e-mail without having to first convert from raw, especially at the time of the shoot. As such, I shoot raw and small (but fine) jpg, retaining only the raw when storing on the external drive and DVD.

]]>2012-09-14T10:03:38+02:002012-09-14T10:03:38+02:00http://www.sanparks.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=65554&p=1787679#p1787679I have a NAS in my network for storing the photos. You can read more about that in the link, but in very short a NAS is a little box with a few harddisks in it. In my case 2, both of 1.5 TB in size. These disks are exact copies as I am using RAID. This means I only have 1.5, not 3, TB available, but if one of the disks dies I can simply replace it and after a long wait it will again be an exact copy.Next to that I have an external harddisk onto which the photos are copied as well. Now the smartest thing to do would be to have that disk in a different location, but... I haven't done that yet.I am rather sure though that my 65.000+ photos are quite safe.